osmose

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To diffuse or cause to diffuse by osmosis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To diffuse by osmosis.

v. To cause to diffuse by osmosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. Same as osmosis, which see.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To diffuse through a septum, as in osmosis; exhibit osmosis.

n. The impulse or tendency of fluids to pass through porous partitions and mix or become diffused through each other; the phenomena attending the passage of fluids, whether liquids or gases, through a porous septum.

Etymologies

Back-formation from osmosis.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Back-formation from osmosis. (Wiktionary)

Examples

a solution of nitrate of soda, and afterwards dried slowly, claiming that the salt crystallises in the fibre, or enters by the action termed osmose, and opens up the fibre to the action of the acid.

Part (but certainly not all; maybe not even most) of this phenomenon is simply blogospheric hubris, the desire to have some of Westhusing's intellectualism, honor, and courage osmose to us from the comfort of our keyboards.

In them there are these differences from the above process: the contents of the male cell, represented by the pollen, are not differentiated into spermatozoids, and there is no actual contact between the contents of the pollen tube and the germinal vesicle, but according to Strashurger, there is a transference of the substance of the nucleus of the pollen cell to that of the germinal vesicle by osmose.